Chapter Summaries

Su Yi rejected the Heavenly Journey Sword Pavilion’s offer of protection, killed Shi An after warning him to stay silent, and vowed to defend the Great Xia Imperial Family and Nine Cauldrons City alone. The Emperor Xia trusted Su Yi and ordered Weng Jiu to investigate the approaching ancient factions, while someone knocked at Azure Cloud Courtyard’s gates that night.

• Mi Tianhe warned Su Yi that ancient powers led by the Huan Clan would reach Nine Cauldrons City within ten days and offered to shelter him and part of the Great Xia Imperial Family if he joined the Heavenly Journey Sword Pavilion.
• Su Yi refused Mi Tianhe’s offer, and when Shi An mocked his confidence, Su Yi killed him with Sword Qi.
• Mi Tianhe left with Shi An’s body after Su Yi threatened the Heavenly Journey Sword Pavilion, and Weng Jiu pledged that the Great Xia Imperial Family would stand with Su Yi.
• Su Yi told Weng Jiu that he could defend the Great Xia Imperial Family without restoring the Nine Cauldrons Suppressing World Array, and Weng Jiu returned to report to the Emperor Xia.
• The Emperor Xia affirmed that Su Yi could handle the threat and ordered Weng Jiu to investigate the ancient factions’ movements.
• Someone knocked on the gates of Azure Cloud Courtyard beneath the night sky.

Su Yi learned that Meng Po Hall had entered the Azure Green Continent through a passage in Immortal Netherworld Land and promised to help Old Blind Man seek justice for his Master. The chapter ended with five ancient orthodoxies announcing they would attack Nine Cauldrons City in seven days to kill Su Yi and overthrow the Great Xia Imperial Family.

• Old Blind Man told Su Yi that a spatial crack in Immortal Netherworld Land led to the Netherworld and that he had encountered a successor of Meng Po Hall there.
• Old Blind Man revealed he wanted to return to the Netherworld to search for Coffin-Lifting Old Ghost, and Su Yi promised to help him deal with Bi Mo and seek justice for Five Burials.
• Su Yi advised Old Blind Man to delay his return and join him on a future trip to the Netherworld Land.
• Five ancient orthodoxies announced that they would march on Nine Cauldrons City in seven days to execute Su Yi and flatten the Great Xia Imperial Family.

As the Five Ancient Giants prepared to attack Nine Cauldrons City, Emperor Xia and the gathered cultivators awaited the battle while Su Yi cultivated and completed his Primal Beginning Dao Intent. On March 10th, the city stood nearly empty as the Five Ancient Giants’ arrival was announced by a horn blast.

• News spread that the Five Ancient Giants would join forces to attack Nine Cauldrons City, drawing cultivators and prodigies from across the world.
• Emperor Xia reassured Weng Jiu that he trusted Su Yi, while Weng Jiu reported that Su Yi remained calm and continued his usual routine.
• Su Yi used the Primal Beginning Dao Intent to make a begonia seed bloom and wither, then renewed it, confirming his transformation into a true Spirit Dao cultivator.
• Wen Xinzhao told Su Yi that she believed he would win, and Su Yi said he hoped the arriving enemies would prove formidable.
• On March 10th, crowds gathered outside the deserted Nine Cauldrons City as cultivators debated Su Yi’s chances and awaited the Five Ancient Giants.
• A vast horn sounded across the horizon, announcing the arrival of the Five Ancient Giants’ experts.

The Five Ancient Giants arrived at Nine Cauldrons City with five Spirit Wheel Realm experts and more than a hundred Spirit Path Great cultivators, intending to crush the Great Xia Imperial Family and kill Su Yi. As their leaders discussed the attack and Zhou Zhi volunteered to face Su Yi, a lone green-robed figure appeared atop the city walls.

• The Five Ancient Giants brought a vast force to Nine Cauldrons City, and onlookers predicted the Great Xia Imperial Family would fall.
• Pu Surong learned that Xia Yunjing had rejected her terms and that Su Yi had told A Leng to get lost, so she decided to wait until the city fell before taking Xia Qingyuan.
• Huan Tianxu summoned Wen Rufeng, Xue Moning, Cheng Yun, and Nie Wanzhi, and the five Spirit Wheel Realm experts agreed to destroy the Great Xia Imperial Family and eliminate Su Yi.
• Zhou Zhi asked to fight Su Yi alone, and Huan Tianxu permitted it as long as it did not disrupt their attack on the city.
• A tall figure in a green robe appeared alone atop the walls of Nine Cauldrons City.

Su Yi appeared alone atop Nine Cauldrons City and challenged the ancient factions besieging it, insisting they attack him together. He accepted Zhou Zhi’s challenge and effortlessly destroyed the prodigy’s thunder-and-flame attack with a flick of his sleeve.

• Su Yi appeared on the city wall, while the Emperor Xia, Wen Xinzhao, and Qing Ya watched the confrontation through the Nine Cauldrons Suppressing World Array.
• Huan Tianxu mocked Su Yi, who declared that he alone was enough to kill the assembled enemies and told them not to run away.
• The Spirit Wheel Realm leaders offered to spare Su Yi or demanded his inheritance, but Su Yi rejected their terms.
• Zhou Zhi of the Tianji Daoist School stepped forward to challenge Su Yi, and Su Yi agreed to fight him first.
• Zhou Zhi summoned a thunder-and-flame luan bird with his Thunder Flame Ruler, but Su Yi destroyed it with a casual flick of his sleeve.

Su Yi overwhelmed Zhou Zhi in two strikes, exposing the Constellation Ranking’s second-ranked prodigy as no match for him. Wen Rufeng rescued Zhou Zhi from Su Yi’s third strike and challenged Su Yi himself, leaving the confrontation between them about to begin.

• Su Yi broke Zhou Zhi’s lightning-and-fire attack with a punch and sent him flying, badly injured him with a second strike, and declared that the third would finish him.
• Wen Rufeng intercepted Su Yi’s third strike to save Zhou Zhi, but the force made the Spirit Wheel Realm expert stagger backward.
• Zhou Zhi admitted bitterly that he had been the clown, while Wen Rufeng handed him to the Tianji Daoist School’s experts.
• Wen Rufeng challenged Su Yi to fight, and the gathered spectators watched as the two faced one another.

Su Yi overwhelmed Wen Rufeng in their duel, breaking his weapons and forcing the Spirit Wheel Realm cultivator to cough blood. Huan Tianxu and three other Spirit Wheel Realm experts then attacked together, and Su Yi drew the Xuan Du Sword, declaring he would sharpen it with the blood of five Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators.

• Su Yi challenged Wen Rufeng and shattered the Mystic Yin Nine Nether Spear with a single finger.
• Wen Rufeng attacked again with a stronger spear thrust, but Su Yi destroyed it with a punch.
• Wen Rufeng unleashed his Golden Radiance Sword, and Su Yi knocked it back, injuring him.
• Huan Tianxu, Xue Moning, Cheng Yun, and Nie Wanzhi joined forces and attacked Su Yi with their lifebound treasures.
• Su Yi shattered Huan Tianxu's soundwaves, summoned the Xuan Du Sword, and vowed to use the five cultivators' blood to sharpen it.

Su Yi unleashed his full Spirit Transformation Realm strength and fought off five Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators attacking Nine Cauldrons City. He killed Wen Rufeng, and the battle’s first death marked the beginning of the slaughter.

• Su Yi revealed his full cultivation and Primal Beginning Dao Intent, astonishing the spectators and pressuring the five Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators.
• Huan Tianxu, Xue Moning, Cheng Yun, Nie Wanzhi, and Wen Rufeng attacked Su Yi together, but his Great Freedom Sword Scripture shattered their encirclement.
• Su Yi repeatedly countered the five cultivators’ attacks, damaging their spirit treasures and wounding them.
• Su Yi’s sixth sword severed Wen Rufeng’s Golden Radiance Sword and split Wen Rufeng’s body and soul, killing the Tianji Daoist School cultivator.

Su Yi shattered the Five Ancient Giants’ attacks outside Nine Cauldrons City, killing Wen Rufeng and Xue Moning and devastating their forces. As the battle continued, Huan Tianxu burned his Dao Xing and attacked Su Yi with the Mystic Demon War Drum.

• Su Yi killed Wen Rufeng with one sword, then charged at Huan Tianxu and the other Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators.
• The Five Ancient Giants sent five battle formations toward Nine Cauldrons City while their Spirit Wheel Realm leaders tried to hold Su Yi back.
• Su Yi broke the leaders’ assault and used five sword strikes to shatter all five formations, killing or wounding many cultivators.
• Su Yi rushed the Spirit Wheel Realm leaders and split Xue Moning apart with a sword strike.
• Huan Tianxu burned his Dao Xing and pounded the Mystic Demon War Drum, unleashing a desperate attack against Su Yi.

Su Yi defeated the Five Ancient Giants outside Nine Cauldrons City, killing their Spirit Wheel Realm leaders and routing their forces. He remained alone above the city as the sole survivor of the battle.

• Su Yi shattered Huan Tianxu’s Mystic Demon War Drum and killed him with a sword strike.
• Nie Wanzhi burned her life and fused with the Snow Sweeping Dao Sword to attack Su Yi, but his five sword mountains stopped her strike and she died.
• Su Yi cut down most of the ancient factions’ fleeing experts with a storm of Sword Qi.
• Cheng Yun charged Su Yi with the Demon Suppression Ruler, but Su Yi broke his weapon and killed him with his Zen Dao of questioning one’s own heart.
• The five Spirit Wheel Realm cultivators were slain, and only a dozen or so of the remaining experts escaped.

Su Yi defeated the Five Ancient Giants’ forces and returned to Azure Cloud Courtyard, leaving the Great Xia Imperial Family and the onlookers stunned by his strength. As Mi Tianhe arrived to beg forgiveness, Su Yi also learned that a descendant of Meng Po Hall had watched the battle, while Pu Surong considered taking Qing Yuan away.

• Su Yi left the battlefield after killing the five Spirit Wheel Realm opponents, and the crowd praised him for turning the tide against the Five Ancient Giants.
• A black-robed youth from Meng Po Hall watched the battle, then erased the spectators’ memories of his presence before leaving.
• Mi Tianhe realized that Su Yi’s victory had made him answer for his earlier words or face Su Yi at Heavenly Journey Sword Pavilion.
• Pu Surong, A Leng, and Ruo Huan discussed whether to seize Qing Yuan while Su Yi was recovering from battle.
• Emperor Xia and Weng Jiu decided to bring Qing Yuan to Azure Cloud Courtyard, fearing Pu Surong might act recklessly.
• At Azure Cloud Courtyard, Su Yi confirmed the black-robed observer was a descendant of Meng Po Hall, then heard Mi Tianhe arrive to beg for forgiveness.

Mi Tianhe apologized to Su Yi for his earlier insult, while Su Yi and Old Blind Man discussed the approaching Brilliant Era. When Xia Qingyuan said she wanted to leave with her mother, Su Yi discovered and destroyed a mind-beguilement artifact hidden in her hairpin, and Pu Surong spoke from outside the courtyard.

• Mi Tianhe repeated his earlier threat to Su Yi and was allowed to leave after apologizing.
• Su Yi and Old Blind Man discussed how the Brilliant Era would bring both transformation and chaos to the Azure Green Continent.
• The Emperor Xia thanked Su Yi for saving the Great Xia Imperial Family, and Xia Qingyuan said she wanted to leave with her mother to learn why she had been abandoned.
• Su Yi took Xia Qingyuan's silver hairpin, identified it as a soul artifact that had influenced her mind, and shattered it.
• Xia Qingyuan collapsed into Su Yi's arms, and the Emperor Xia accused Pu Surong of using a secret technique on her daughter.
• Pu Surong spoke from outside the courtyard, asking whether it was wrong for a mother to take her daughter away.

Pu Surong and her companions came to Azure Cloud Courtyard to take Xia Qingyuan, but Su Yi refused and challenged Pu Hongqian, a Spirit Wheel Realm elder of the Purple Moon Fox Clan. Su Yi overwhelmed Pu Hongqian with bare-handed attacks, leaving the battle unresolved as the others watched in shock.

• Pu Surong offered Su Yi a reward and passage to the Bright Sky Realm if he let her take Xia Qingyuan, but Su Yi refused and demanded to know how her group had reached the Azure Green Continent.
• The Gray-Clothed Old Man revealed himself as Pu Hongqian and dismissed Old Blind Man as a remnant soul, while Old Blind Man warned the fox clan to leave.
• Su Yi counted to three, then rose into the sky to fight Pu Hongqian away from Azure Cloud Courtyard.
• Pu Hongqian unleashed the Moon Wheel Soul-Suppressing Sound, but Su Yi was unaffected and struck him with a punch.
• Pu Hongqian tried the Mystic Flower Soul-Snatching Art, but Su Yi struck him again, badly injuring him and leaving Pu Surong's group stunned.

Su Yi fought Pu Hongqian and forced him to unleash the Purple Moon Fox Clan’s Golden Evil Gourd, an innate spiritual treasure. Su Yi used the Great Dao Treasure Refining Art to neutralize its attacks, leaving Pu Hongqian’s golden swords suspended before him.

• Su Yi overwhelmed Pu Hongqian with repeated punches after the Purple Moon Fox Clan’s soul arts failed to affect him.
• Pu Hongqian summoned the Golden Evil Gourd, and the Old Blind Man recognized it as a terrifying connate spirit treasure.
• Su Yi recognized the gourd as one of the Five Elements Innate Evil Gourds and recalled that he had subdued three others in his previous life.
• Pu Hongqian unleashed the gourd’s Innate Golden Killing Intent as a giant golden sword, but Su Yi bound and dispersed it with the Great Dao Treasure Refining Art.
• Pu Hongqian sent a barrage of golden Dao swords at Su Yi, who halted them all in midair with layers of restriction seals.

Su Yi defeated Pu Hongqian and subdued the Purple Moon Fox Clan’s Golden Evil Gourd, forcing Pu Surong to concede and leave without Xia Qingyuan. Afterward, Old Blind Man set out to investigate Meng Po Hall, while news of the battle spread and shocked the five ancient powers and relieved the Dongguo Clan.

• Su Yi shattered Pu Hongqian’s golden Dao swords, subdued the Golden Evil Gourd, and absorbed its golden evil power into the treasure.
• Pu Surong conceded the battle, but Su Yi kept the Golden Evil Gourd as the price for the clan’s defeat; Pu Surong warned him of future trouble before leaving with her people.
• The Emperor Xia and his companions departed, and Old Blind Man told Su Yi he planned to investigate Meng Po Hall in the Immortal Netherworld Land.
• Su Yi returned to his room to rest while the city began recovering its vitality after the battle.
• News of the battle shocked the Huan Clan of the Demon Race and the other four ancient powers, while the Dongguo Clan felt relieved that Dongguo Bofu had refused to join them.

After Su Yi’s victory over the Five Ancient Giants, the world awaited the coming Brilliant Era. A mysterious Robe Man arrived from another world, learned about Su Yi, mourned at Ye Yufei’s grave, and set out to meet her son.

• The Yin Sha Underworld Palace master explained that the five Spirit Wheel Realm experts Su Yi defeated had been weakened by the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse and warned that the coming Brilliant Era would bring greater dangers.
• News of Su Yi’s victory spread, and cultivators hailed him as “Su the Immortal” as factions prepared for the Brilliant Era, expected within a month.
• A Robe Man came to Jade Capital City seeking the Su Family and secretly entered the Imperial Palace to ask Zhou Zhigan about Su Yi.
• After hearing Zhou Zhigan’s account, the Robe Man revealed that he had come from another world to find family and departed for Ye Yufei’s grave.
• At Ye Yufei’s grave, the Robe Man grieved her death, vowed vengeance against the clan elders who had used her, and resolved to help Su Yi inherit the Ancestral Source Divine Treasure.

Pu Surong and her companions returned to their clan after losing the Golden Evil Gourd, while Azure Cloud Tower delayed ranking Su Yi against Shen Suiyun until their inevitable duel. Su Yi gave Wen Xinzhao the gourd and planned his cultivation before the Brilliant Era; at dusk, a mysterious middle-aged man arrived at Nine Cauldrons City and joined a crowd discussing Su Yi’s battle.

• Pu Surong and her companions used the Purple Moon Divine Gourd to travel through a forbidden array back to their clan.
• Azure Cloud Tower’s elders debated whether Su Yi or Shen Suiyun should top the Constellation Ranking, and the Tower Master postponed the ranking until their duel.
• Su Yi refined the Golden Evil Gourd and gave it to Wen Xinzhao to use as a Sword Nurturing Gourd.
• Su Yi cultivated the Primal Beginning Dao Intent and planned to strengthen his cultivation before the Brilliant Era arrived.
• A white-templed middle-aged man rode a blue-gray donkey to Nine Cauldrons City and joined people listening to an account of Su Yi’s battle.

Ye Yunlan arrived at Azure Cloud Courtyard and revealed that he was Su Yi’s maternal uncle, seeking to take him back to the Ye Family. He explained that Ye Yufei had been a prodigy sent to Azure Green Continent through a dangerous scheme by her clan elders, and Su Yi learned that her journey may have been intended to kill her.

• Ye Yunlan entered Nine Cauldrons City and made his way to Azure Cloud Courtyard, where Wen Xinzhao let him wait for Su Yi.
• When Su Yi returned, Ye Yunlan identified himself as Ye Yufei’s elder brother and proved his claim with the Ye Family’s leaf-shaped birthmark.
• Ye Yunlan offered to take Su Yi to the Ye Family to inherit a great fortune, but Su Yi refused and said he needed no help.
• Ye Yunlan revealed that Ye Yufei had been sent to Azure Green Continent against her will and that the clan elders had treated her as a pawn to keep her from inheriting the family’s fortune.
• Ye Yunlan explained that Ye Yufei had been a remarkable prodigy, but her cultivation was irreparably damaged when she crossed the spatial torrent sealed inside a Dao Cocoon.
• Su Yi realized that the Ye Family’s elders may have sent Ye Yufei on a mission they never expected her to survive.

Su Yi learned that his mother, Ye Yufei, had been persecuted by the Kunwu Ye Clan over a fortune that could help a Spirit Path Figure become an Emperor. Ye Yunlan warned that the clan would target Su Yi when its forces reached the Azure Green Continent, but Su Yi dismissed the treasure as worthless to him.

• Su Yi questioned Ye Yunlan about the Ye Family, and Ye Yunlan explained that he and Ye Yufei came from the Kunwu Ye Clan of the Azure Profound Realm in the Eighth Star Ruins.
• Ye Yunlan revealed that the Azure Profound Realm had endured the Dark Antiquity Forbidden Curse and later recovered during a Brilliant Era, while Su Yi considered how the Star Ruins fit into the wider starry sky.
• Ye Yunlan said the Kunwu Ye Clan intended to enter the Azure Green Continent's Brilliant Era and claim the Azure Green Source, but had sent Ye Yufei there early to keep her from inheriting the clan's fortune.
• Ye Yunlan warned that the clan's forces would try to kill Su Yi because Ye Yufei's bloodline made him eligible to inherit the Ancestral Source Divine Treasure.
• Ye Yunlan revealed that the Ancestral Source Divine Treasure could help a Spirit Path Figure attain the Dao and become an Emperor, and Su Yi called it chicken ribs.

Su Yi refused Ye Yunlan’s offer to leave with him, while the Brilliant Era drew near and cultivation across the Azure Green Continent surged. When Shen Suiyun arrived to challenge Su Yi to a duel, Su Yi declined.

• Ye Yunlan urged Su Yi to leave the Azure Green Continent and accept the Ye Family’s protection, but Su Yi refused and said he would visit the family later to settle old grievances and claim his mother’s opportunity.
• Su Yi told Wen Xinzhao that he sought a path beyond the Emperor Realm, while she questioned whether such a realm existed.
• As Spiritual Qi rapidly revived, Su Yi repaired the Nine Cauldrons Suppressing World Array, observed the celestial phenomena, and cultivated until he reached the late stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm.
• Su Yi predicted the Brilliant Era would arrive within seven days, while Wen Xinzhao and others struggled to suppress their advancing cultivation realms.
• Weng Jiu reported that Shen Suiyun of the Heavenly Journey Sword Pavilion had come to Nine Cauldrons City to challenge Su Yi, but Su Yi said he was not interested.